Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The Red Lake Band of Chippewa in northern Minnesota has opened a new shopping center on its land north of Bemidji. “It’s finally a reality” after years of discussion and development, Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell Seki told Lakeland PBS television in Bemidji this month. The new Red Lake Trading Post is three times the size of the previous grocery store, including a laundromat and gas station. “Our new bakery will be actually baking breads, rather than just having a commercial premade bakery and sweets, so we’ll actually have choices l...
An impressive collaboration is at work on a 110-unit affordable-housing complex on S. Cedar Avenue near Franklin that will provide decent shelter to working poor and indigent households. The project should add a positive chapter to the memory of last year's nearby tent city homeless encampment of several hundred people, disproportionately American Indians. Construction could commence as early as September on the $35.8 million project at the site of a demolished factory that also has served as a...
Dave Bice, owner of Bald Eagle Erectors, is a veteran ironworker and contractor with an established track record. However, Bice's crew wouldn't be at work on the Minnesota Vikings stadium project downtown were it not for a small-loan program created to help the $1 billion, publicly financed project meet ambitious minority-participation rates. "Without that $200,000 working capital loan, we wouldn't be able to do this job," said Bice, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe who expects to...
